tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post2597447024597574883..comments2018-11-19T10:20:04.833-06:00Comments on UM &amp; Global: Robert Hunt: Culture, Not Geography, Defines Global Church, Part IIDavid W. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17024204453848260271noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post-62394958574795176262016-07-27T13:05:25.439-05:002016-07-27T13:05:25.439-05:00Excellent. Picking up for UM Insight, with your pe...Excellent. Picking up for UM Insight, with your permission.Cynthia Astlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09842662315052146636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post-86294566706267649122016-07-25T17:21:35.471-05:002016-07-25T17:21:35.471-05:00Robert I hope you will consider serving on the Bis...Robert I hope you will consider serving on the Bishops&#39; committee to respond to sexuality issues. There has to be a better way than endless demoralizing fighting. We need some &quot;gospel and culture&quot; folks on that committee.DRDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17564574307376386568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post-33421325040898464132016-07-23T18:16:24.723-05:002016-07-23T18:16:24.723-05:00To which I offer a hearty Amen.To which I offer a hearty Amen.Robert Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12733025264316575349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post-55886639591053256842016-07-23T10:51:42.620-05:002016-07-23T10:51:42.620-05:00To be sure, the Incarnation inspires (or ought to ...To be sure, the Incarnation inspires (or ought to inspire) epistemological humility--and thus a recognition of the incompleteness and fallibility of all knowledge. As such, the search for truth coincides with a desire/need to cross boundaries. This missionary posture has a long history in Christian thought (logos spermatikos). At the same time, this posture presupposes, and thus stands in deep tension, with revelation-based truth claims. This missionary posture also has a long tenure. Much of the debate about normativity and truth in world Christianity today seeks to negotiate this tension in intra-Christian and societal contexts that largely lack the requisite intellectual frameworks for it.Hendrik Pietersehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03173212170676554682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post-72954585225565276462016-07-22T22:01:35.007-05:002016-07-22T22:01:35.007-05:00What if both authority and truth are emergent as t...What if both authority and truth are emergent as the church in dialogue with its own experience, society, and nature is able to approach however distantly the kind of experience and knowledge of the world that God has? What if incarnation indicates God&#39;s way of knowing with and not just God&#39;s being with the world? Normativity is a function of culture only when culture is a locus for cross cultural dialogue. Robert Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12733025264316575349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post-65443380016910337282016-07-22T09:52:37.043-05:002016-07-22T09:52:37.043-05:00Insightful, Robert. Along with Darryl&#39;s excell...Insightful, Robert. Along with Darryl&#39;s excellent recent reflections on General Conference, we have much food for thought as a church. A key difficulty, as I see it, is that once we admit that culture goes all the way down in human affairs, so to speak, then what? Back of this question lies a fundamental anxiety in our so-called postmodern times, namely, the collapse of the &quot;house of authority.&quot; The egalitarian move now in vogue to locate normativity in &quot;cultures&quot; merely relocates the problem. Perhaps our current culture wars invite us to ask some old-fashioned questions: Is normativity a function of culture without remainder? Is truth? Yes or no, what is gained and what is lost for our life together as a denomination?Hendrik Pietersehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03173212170676554682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post-24199148988965196382016-07-22T07:05:17.232-05:002016-07-22T07:05:17.232-05:00I look forward to reading it!I look forward to reading it!Robert Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12733025264316575349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615496199721498323.post-20544291162139667382016-07-22T06:32:20.905-05:002016-07-22T06:32:20.905-05:00Robert,
Well said. You&#39;ve named important exa...Robert, <br />Well said. You&#39;ve named important examples of US cultural myopia preventing the UMC from truly becoming a worldwide church. I offer similar arguments in Methodist Morals: Social Principles in the Public Church&#39;s Witness (University of Tennessee Press, April 2016): http://utpress.org/title/methodist-morals. I&#39;d love to hear your thoughts, as a missiologist, on my study written from a social ethics perspective.<br />Sincerely, <br />Darryl W. StephensDarryl Stephenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047354608966787813noreply@blogger.com